This author, rather than agreeing with the scrict boundaries of that makes a digital immigrant/native, focuses instead on some general guidlines of what it means to be digitally native, e.g. 'share content online, in an appropriate location and with appropriate security constraints (considering legal, moral and inter-personal issues)'. However this seems to be no less strict than Prensky's guidlines. I think many of the definitions of 'digital nativism' and 'digital immigration' are far too defined. Like mentioned in my other posts, I feel like it all depends on other factors such as class, location etc, and I also feel like there are different levels of how much of a 'digital native' you can be.
The author suggests to 'create technologies and support people in using those technologies so that they become more digitally native. In answering the big question this approach provides a good starting point. But perhaps becoming digitally native is more difficult than we expect.'
Would having a better understand ing of digital media make you digitally native? What defines what makes a person cross the line from being an immigrant to a native? It seems difficult to put a label on it.
Prensky's is an extremely technodeterminist idea. He says that if you are born into a world of new media usage, your brain becomes attuned to the characteristics of the media -especially immersive interactive computer games (which he makes and suggests all educators should start to make).
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